# دن
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Aramaic דַּנָּא / ܕܰܢܳܐ (dannā, “wine jug, vat”), from Akkadian 𒂁𒆗𒉡 (/⁠dannu⁠/, “storage vat mostly for storing beer and wine”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dann/

#### Noun

دَنّ • (dann) m (plural دِنَان (dinān))
* wine jug
** a. 570, about when المُرَقِّش الْأَصْغَر (al-muraqqiš al-ʔaṣḡar) died, with this also quoted in الأعشى [al-ʾaʿšā] (a. 625) Geyer, Rudolf, editor, Zwei Gedichte von Al-ʾAʿšâ (Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-historische Klasse; 149/6)‎ (in German), volume Mâ Bukâʾu, Wien: In Kommission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn, published 1905, page 65
    كـَأَنَّ فَاهَا (var. فِيهَا) عـُقَارًا قَرْقَفًا (var. عـُقَارٌ قَرْقَفٌ) نُشَّ (var. سُنَّ) مِنَ الدَنِّ فَالْكَأْسُ رَذُومkaʔanna fāhā (var. fīhā) ʕuqāran qarqafan (var. ʕuqārun qarqafun) nušša (var. sunna) mina d-danni fa-l-kaʔsu raḏūmAs if her mouth were a gassing hooch … poured from the jug so the stoop was about to overflow

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Verb

دن (form I)
* دِنَّ (dinna) /din.na/: inflection of دَانَ (dāna):
** third-person feminine plural past active/passive
** second-person feminine plural imperative
* دِنْ (din) /din/: second-person masculine singular imperative of دَانَ (dāna)

### References

* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 169
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “دن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 918
* Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 33

## Gujarati
### Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu دن (din), ultimately from Sanskrit दिन (dina).

### Noun

دن • (din) m (Standard Gujarati દિન) (Lisan ud-Dawat)
* day
    Synonyms: دھاڑو (dahāṛo), ديوس (dīvas)

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀤𑀺𑀡 (diṇa), from Sanskrit दिन (diná).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Punjabi) IPA: /d̪ɪn/, [d̪ɪ̃nᵊ], /dɪɳ/, [d̪ɪ̃ɳᵊ]

### Noun

دِن or دِݨ • (din or diṇ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਦਿਨ or ਦਿਣ)
* day; daytime (the period from sunrise till sunset)
    Antonym: رات (rāt)
* day (a period of 24-hours)
* day (from one midnight to another)
* day; occasion
* (in the plural) season; circumstance (ie. these days)
* (figuratively) time
* (figuratively) luck; fate (ie. to have good or bad luck)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “دن”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
* Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “دن”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
* “ਦਿਨ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
* Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dina”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 362

## Urdu
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi دن (dn /⁠din⁠/) (c. 1503), from Prakrit 𑀤𑀺𑀡 (diṇa), from Sanskrit दिन (diná), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dyew-.
Cognates include Punjabi دِݨ (diṇ) / دِن (din), Saraiki دِݨ (diṇ) and Sindhi ڏِنُ (ḍ̠iṇu).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d̪ɪn/, [d̪ɪ̃n]
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪn

### Noun

دِن • (din) m (Hindi spelling दिन)
* day (from one midnight to another)
* day (a period of 24-hours)
* (by extension)
** a period of time
** age; era
* day; daytime (the period from sunrise till sunset)
    Antonym: رات (rāt)
* day; occasion
* (in the plural) season; circumstance (ie. these days)
* (figuratively) time
* (figuratively) luck; fate (ie. to have good or bad luck)

#### Declension

Declension of دن :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | دن (din) | دن (din) |
| oblique | دن (din) | دنوں (dinõ) |
| vocative | دن (din) | دنو (dino) |

### See also

Days of the week in Urdu · ہَفْتے کے دِن (hafte ke din) (layout · text) :
| اِتْوَار (itvār) | پِیر (pīr), سومْوَار (somvār) | مَن٘گَل (maṅgal) | بُدھ (budh) | جُمِعْرات (jumi'rāt) | جُمْعَہ (jum'a) | سَنِیچَر (sanīcar), ہَفْتَہ (hafta), شَنْبَہ (śanba) |

### References

* ↑ “دن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* ↑ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dina”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 362

### Further reading

* “دن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “دن”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]